Re: The Lexicon — "Exercised in Your Spirit"
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Originally Posted by Igzy
Given the human species' vast need for feeling good, I would say that by de-legitimizing all other kinds of enjoyment other than "enjoying the Lord," the LC pretty much pushed itself into overemphasizing spiritual enjoyment, to the fault OBW noted.
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However, if you believe you should only "enjoy the Lord," then your natural need for pleasure is going to make getting pleasure the focus of your spiritual life, and every meeting is going to be a quest for a high, since all other forms of fun are suspect at best.
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Absolutely. And given the subjective nature of "spiritual enjoyment," "enjoying the Lord," etc, focusing intensely on these things opened us up to manipulation. Because others helped us determine what was truly "enjoying the Lord," and what was not.
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And for this cause, the Good Shepherd left the 99 pieces of crappy building material, and went out to recover the one remnant piece of good building material. For the Lord will build His church, and He will build it with the good building material, not the crappy kind.
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